User:Eswoods/Ed Schrader (Musician)

Ed Schrader (Musician), full name Edward Henry Schrader, is a musician, comedian, journalist for The Baltimore City Paper, actor, and talk show host of Baltimore’s only Late Night Talk Show “The Ed Schrader Show,” and founding Wham City member.

=Early Life=

Born in Utica, New York, 1979 to Nancy Evans, a school teacher, and Edward Lewis Schrader, a former English professor, and writer.

=Recent Work=

Though Ed wears many hats he has attained the most prominence performing as a musician.

His latest guise, a rather minimal yet poignant one none the less, consists of Schrader playing only a floor tom in a fashion that calls upon the muse of The Swans, or Death In June, and crooning powerful vocals, that have been compared to everyone from Frank Sinatra, to The Butthole Surfers, with a little reverb for good measure, a concoction that turned many heads as he traversed the country between 2005-2009 touring with the likes of  [Beach House, Deerhunter, No Age, Dan Deacon, Future Islands, The Death Set, Double Dagger, and Teeth Mountain. He has moved and inspired many in the American underground  to reconsider the idea of deconstruction, aiming at a  perhaps more robust analysis of pop music. Village Voice writer, and avid Schrader fan, Chris Weingarten puts it like so

“One-man Butthole Surfers or human ringtone? Ed Schrader may be the most feral pop star inexistence. With a knack for finding perfect earworms, he screeches and chokes out melodies, accompanied only by the pounding of whatever drum he has handy. He's a master songsmith who has reduced pop and punk to their most basic building blocks."

Currently Ed is playing with a band, consisting of Jonathan Ehrens, and Jason of the highly praised Art Department. A tour is rumored for spring 2010.